Robert L. Gibbs was the son of Julius Caesar Gibbs and Elizabeth Moore. He married Frances "Fannie" Redman on March 21, 1888, in Franklin County, Kentucky. Together they had three children, Hugh, Luther and Gracy.
Robert died of injuries sustained from falling out of a third story window of a rooming house while staying in Frankfort to work. The weather was very hot, and it was surmised that Robert had attempted to seek some relief from the heat in the middle of the night. The following article tells the story followed by his obituary.
The State Journal, Frankfort KY, Tuesday, July 1, 1913:
"Falling headforemost from a third-story front window in the boarding house of Mrs. Mattie Bush at 411 Lewis Street early this morning, George [sic] Gibbs, about 43, a carpenter of Graefenburg, was instantly killed. It is supposed that intense heat drove him to recline with his head in the window, and that while asleep he lost his balance and fell out. He struck and broke down a sign extending out at the side of the front door of the house, and then evidently struck the pavement head first. The accident happened some time between midnight and 2 a.m. At midnight, Will Shannon, a bartender at the New Capitol Café came into the house and found nothing wrong. At 2 a.m. Gibbs' body was found lying on the pavement by Newton Holmes, a Western Union telegraph operator who was returning home to the house after his work. Holmes first noticed the broken sign, and when he saw Gibbs stretched out on the pavement with nothing but top shirt and underclothes on, knew at once what had happened. Gibbs had taken the room at the boarding house only at 7:30 last night. He complained then of the heat and said he did not know whether he could stand it in the room. He said, however, that he would take it and see if it was cooler later. The body was taken in charge by Sam Roberts of the undertaking establishment of Lyman Graham. Gibbs possibly had been here several days, Roberts thinks, as he saw him with a grown son last Saturday."
The State Journal, Frankfort KY, Wednesday, July 2, 1913:
"The funeral of R. L. Gibbs, the carpenter who was killed by a fall from the third-story window of the boarding house of Mrs. Mattie Bush, 311 Lewis Street, early yesterday morning, will be held at the family residence in Graefenburg this afternoon. Burial will be in the cemetery at that place."
Robert died of injuries sustained from falling out of a third story window of a rooming house while staying in Frankfort to work. The weather was very hot, and it was surmised that Robert had attempted to seek some relief from the heat in the middle of the night. The following article tells the story followed by his obituary.
The State Journal, Frankfort KY, Tuesday, July 1, 1913:
"Falling headforemost from a third-story front window in the boarding house of Mrs. Mattie Bush at 411 Lewis Street early this morning, George [sic] Gibbs, about 43, a carpenter of Graefenburg, was instantly killed. It is supposed that intense heat drove him to recline with his head in the window, and that while asleep he lost his balance and fell out. He struck and broke down a sign extending out at the side of the front door of the house, and then evidently struck the pavement head first. The accident happened some time between midnight and 2 a.m. At midnight, Will Shannon, a bartender at the New Capitol Café came into the house and found nothing wrong. At 2 a.m. Gibbs' body was found lying on the pavement by Newton Holmes, a Western Union telegraph operator who was returning home to the house after his work. Holmes first noticed the broken sign, and when he saw Gibbs stretched out on the pavement with nothing but top shirt and underclothes on, knew at once what had happened. Gibbs had taken the room at the boarding house only at 7:30 last night. He complained then of the heat and said he did not know whether he could stand it in the room. He said, however, that he would take it and see if it was cooler later. The body was taken in charge by Sam Roberts of the undertaking establishment of Lyman Graham. Gibbs possibly had been here several days, Roberts thinks, as he saw him with a grown son last Saturday."
The State Journal, Frankfort KY, Wednesday, July 2, 1913:
"The funeral of R. L. Gibbs, the carpenter who was killed by a fall from the third-story window of the boarding house of Mrs. Mattie Bush, 311 Lewis Street, early yesterday morning, will be held at the family residence in Graefenburg this afternoon. Burial will be in the cemetery at that place."
Robert L. Gibbs was the son of Julius Caesar Gibbs and Elizabeth Moore. He married Frances "Fannie" Redman on March 21, 1888, in Franklin County, Kentucky. Together they had three children, Hugh, Luther and Gracy.
Robert died of injuries sustained from falling out of a third story window of a rooming house while staying in Frankfort to work. The weather was very hot, and it was surmised that Robert had attempted to seek some relief from the heat in the middle of the night. The following article tells the story followed by his obituary.
The State Journal, Frankfort KY, Tuesday, July 1, 1913:
"Falling headforemost from a third-story front window in the boarding house of Mrs. Mattie Bush at 411 Lewis Street early this morning, George [sic] Gibbs, about 43, a carpenter of Graefenburg, was instantly killed. It is supposed that intense heat drove him to recline with his head in the window, and that while asleep he lost his balance and fell out. He struck and broke down a sign extending out at the side of the front door of the house, and then evidently struck the pavement head first. The accident happened some time between midnight and 2 a.m. At midnight, Will Shannon, a bartender at the New Capitol Café came into the house and found nothing wrong. At 2 a.m. Gibbs' body was found lying on the pavement by Newton Holmes, a Western Union telegraph operator who was returning home to the house after his work. Holmes first noticed the broken sign, and when he saw Gibbs stretched out on the pavement with nothing but top shirt and underclothes on, knew at once what had happened. Gibbs had taken the room at the boarding house only at 7:30 last night. He complained then of the heat and said he did not know whether he could stand it in the room. He said, however, that he would take it and see if it was cooler later. The body was taken in charge by Sam Roberts of the undertaking establishment of Lyman Graham. Gibbs possibly had been here several days, Roberts thinks, as he saw him with a grown son last Saturday."
The State Journal, Frankfort KY, Wednesday, July 2, 1913:
"The funeral of R. L. Gibbs, the carpenter who was killed by a fall from the third-story window of the boarding house of Mrs. Mattie Bush, 311 Lewis Street, early yesterday morning, will be held at the family residence in Graefenburg this afternoon. Burial will be in the cemetery at that place."
Robert died of injuries sustained from falling out of a third story window of a rooming house while staying in Frankfort to work. The weather was very hot, and it was surmised that Robert had attempted to seek some relief from the heat in the middle of the night. The following article tells the story followed by his obituary.
The State Journal, Frankfort KY, Tuesday, July 1, 1913:
"Falling headforemost from a third-story front window in the boarding house of Mrs. Mattie Bush at 411 Lewis Street early this morning, George [sic] Gibbs, about 43, a carpenter of Graefenburg, was instantly killed. It is supposed that intense heat drove him to recline with his head in the window, and that while asleep he lost his balance and fell out. He struck and broke down a sign extending out at the side of the front door of the house, and then evidently struck the pavement head first. The accident happened some time between midnight and 2 a.m. At midnight, Will Shannon, a bartender at the New Capitol Café came into the house and found nothing wrong. At 2 a.m. Gibbs' body was found lying on the pavement by Newton Holmes, a Western Union telegraph operator who was returning home to the house after his work. Holmes first noticed the broken sign, and when he saw Gibbs stretched out on the pavement with nothing but top shirt and underclothes on, knew at once what had happened. Gibbs had taken the room at the boarding house only at 7:30 last night. He complained then of the heat and said he did not know whether he could stand it in the room. He said, however, that he would take it and see if it was cooler later. The body was taken in charge by Sam Roberts of the undertaking establishment of Lyman Graham. Gibbs possibly had been here several days, Roberts thinks, as he saw him with a grown son last Saturday."
The State Journal, Frankfort KY, Wednesday, July 2, 1913:
"The funeral of R. L. Gibbs, the carpenter who was killed by a fall from the third-story window of the boarding house of Mrs. Mattie Bush, 311 Lewis Street, early yesterday morning, will be held at the family residence in Graefenburg this afternoon. Burial will be in the cemetery at that place."
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